Ice-cream freezer



(NoModel-J I v `2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

' J. PLHARRIS. 'Y

ICE GREAM FREEZER.

No. 463,709. Patented Nov. 24. 1891.

(No Model.)

'2 Sheets-smet 2. J. H. HARRIS. ICE CREAM FREEZER.

PatentedNov. 24, 1891.

. me cams PETER.; C0., PKoro-umo., wAsnmGron, u. cA

UNirnD STATES PMN-nvrv @1u-Ica JOHN H. HARRIS, OF IOLA, KANSAS.

ICE-CREAM FREEZER.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 463,709, dated November 24, 1891.

Application iiled April 9,1891. Serial No. 388,256. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Beit known that I, JOHN H. HARRIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at lola, in the county of Allen and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Ice-Cream Freezer, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in that class of ice-cream freezers employing` a rotatable cylinder, to which the cream adheres and is frozen during such rotation and'delivered in a thin sheet into a receptacle awaiting its reception.

The objects of the present invention are to provide a cheap and simple construction of freezer of the above class capable of facilitating the freezinglof the cream or other substance, and that more thoroughly, which is easy of access and manipulation, may be stored with and emptied of the refrigerative agent, and may be more readily cleaned and better adapted for feeding the cream to the cylinder and receiving the same.

With the above objects in view the invention consists in certain features of construction hereinafter specified, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of an ice-cream freezer contructed in accordance with my invention, the cover` thrown back, exposing the interior. Fig. 2 is a similar view, the upper freezing-section being removed. Figs. 3 and4 are detailsin perspective of the upper and lower freezing-sections, respectively. Fig. 5 is a vertical longitudinal section. Fig. 6 is a transverse section. Fig. 74 is a detail in perspective of the scrapingblade. Fig. Sis a detail in perspective of the delivery-pan.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

In practicing my invention I employ a rectangular box or casing 1, to the rear edge of which I hinge, as at 2, a rectangular cover 3, having a shape similar to the casing 1 and having its edges provided with overlapping strips 4. The cover is secured upon the casing in this instance by hooks 5, which removably engage with eyes 6 upon the casing. A lid 7 is mounted upon the cover,is removable, and is secured in position by apair of hooks 8, engaging with eyes 9upon the cover. At its front end the casing is provided with a transverse opening 10, covered by a swinging hinged lid or lap 11, which may be fastened in position by a hook 12, engaging with an eye 13. A recess 14 isformed in the front face of the casing 1 parallel to and near the upper edge thereof, and pivoted therein, as at 15, is a bar 16, which extends beyond the opposite side of the casing 1 and is connected 6o to the upper end of aspring 17, the lower end of which is made fast to lthe side of the casing. The opposite sides of the casing, at their upper edges, are provided with bearings 18, for a purpose hereinafter apparent.

Removably mounted in and approximating the shape and size of the casing 1 is a sheetmetal box 19, which bya pair of longitudinal partitions 20, located near the opposite sides of the box, is divided into a central compart- 7o ment 21 and two side compartments 22, somewhat narrower than the central compartment. The side compartments are covered partially by covers 23, which extend to near the rear ends of the compartments, but leave open- '7 5 ings 24, through which the refrigerating agent may be introduced. rEhe covers' 23 are also provided in line with the bearings 18 of the casing with half bearing-grooves 25. The central compartment 21 is provided With a 8o concaved cover 26, semi-cylindrical in crosssection, concentric with the bearing-grooves 25, and beyond its concavity at its front is inclined to form a wall 27 and in rear of the concavity extended over the vcompartment a slight distance, leaving an opening 23 in the rear end of the said compartment, through which the refrigerative material may be introducedA The inclined wall 27 is in line with or leads to the opening 10 of the casing 9o and is continued by means of a removable delivery pan or tray 30, having its opposite edges converged and provided with anges 31. The flanges rest against the opposite edges of the opening, and hence form a continuation of the inclined wall 27.

31 designates the upper freezing box or section, andthe same consists of the three compartments-namely, the central compartment 33 vand the two outer compartments 32. roo These compartments are partially covered by a common top 34, to which is hinged, as at 36,

a lid 35 for closing the compartments. The bottoms 37 of the side compartments, which have contact with the tops of the corresponding compartments of the lower refrigerat-ingsection, are provided with transverse halfcylindrical bearing-grooves 38, which are opposite the grooves 25 of the lower section. The bottom 39 of the central compartment of the upper section is concaved at its center, as at 40, so as to be semi-cylindrical in cross-section, and in rear of its curved portion is extended to complete the bottom, as at 4l, and in front of the same upwardly inclined, as at 42, so as to combine with the inner side walls of the side compartments of the upper section to form a recess 43. After the lower section has been placed in position the shaft 44, upon which is mounted a cylinder 45, is mounted in the bearings 18 and those of the meetingfaces in the refrigerating-sections, said shaft being rotatable by means of a crank 46, located outside of the casing. The upper refrigerating-section is now placed in position,it being of course understood that the two have been previously lille-d with a proper refrigerating agent, the cold air radiating from the sections tothe cylinder. A cream-pan 47 receives the cleam when first introduced into the apparatus and is located conveniently upon the top of the upper refrigerating-section, and

access may be had by the removal of a cover 48 and the cover 7 of thecasing. A pipe 49 leads from one edge of the cream-pan and the top of the upper refrigerating-section to the concaved portion of the bottom of said section. The pipe communicates at its upper end with the cream-pan by a port 50, which may be closed by a nozzle 5l, located outside of the pan and inserted in the pipe. Cream may also be introduced directly through the nozzle when desirable. It will be observed that the cream, being fed to the top of the cylinder, will be frozen by contact therewith and from exposure to the cold surfaces of the refrigerating-sections during the rotations of the cylinder, so that the cream is frozen upon the surface of the cylinder. It now simply remains to provide a means for delivering the cream from the cylinder to the receptacle placed for the reception of the same. In the recess 43, at the front end of the upper section, I secure a shaft 52, and by eyes 58 hinge to the shaft a triangular scraping-blade 54, which is spring-pressed by a series of springs 55 into contact at its rear edge with the periphery of the cylinder. The opposite edge is provided with a metal strip 56, and to the same is connected an eye 57, which engages removably with a hook 5S, extending rear wardly from the inner face of the pivot-ed bar 16. The object of this bar, spring-pressed inwardly, as heretofore described, is to permit of the operator pressing against the spring in a direction contrary to its tendency, and thus forcing the bar out from the casing and withdrawing the scraping-blade from the surface of the cylinder. This permits of the operator giving the cylinder a few rotations, so as to thoroughly cool the same previous to the beginning of the delivery of the cream. lVhen su fiiciently cooled, the bar is released and the scraper returned to position in contact with the periphery of the cylinder.

The cylinder consists of opposite circular wooden heads and an intermediate metal periphery, the heads being slightly larger in diameter than is the periphery, and thus projecting a slight distance beyond said periphery and leaving a space between the curved bottom and top of the upper and lower refrigerating-sections, respectively, and the surface of the cylinder.

Having described my invention, what I claim is* l. In an ice-cream freezer, the combination, with the casing and-the upper and lower freezing-sections, the adjacent walls of which are provided with semi-cylindrical concavities, of a shaft journaled in the casing, a cylinder on the shaft within the concavities, a scraperblade located against the cylinder, a creamreceiving pan located upon the upper refrigeratin g or freezing section, a feed-tube leading from a point above the section through the same, terminating in the upper concavity above the cylinder, and having a port effecting communication between the pan and pipe, and a nozzle removably inserted in the upper end of the pipe and adapted to close the port, substantially as specified.

2. In an ice-cream freezer, the combination, with the casing,a lever pivoted at one end to one corner of the casing, and a spring for pressing the lever toward the casing, of upper and lower freezing-sections having concaved meeting walls provided at corresponding ends with recesses, a delivery-pan located in one of the recesses, a shaft in the remaining recess, a scraper-blade loosely hung upon the shaft, a spring for pressing the blade into contact with the cylinder, and connections between said blade and lever, substantially as specified.

3. In an ice-cream freezer, the combination, with the rectangular casing, the lower freezing-section mounted in the casing, a pair of longitudinal walls dividing said section into two outer compartments and a central compartment, coverings for the compartments terminating short of the walls of the section and leaving openings, the cover of the central compartment being concaved between its ends and at its front end inclined and communicating with an opening formed in the front wall of the casing, a shaft journaled iu bearings formed in the walls of the casing, and a cylinder mounted on the shaft and rotating in the concaved cover of said lower section, of a cover hinged to the edge of the casing and provided at its upper end with a removable lid, an upper freezing section or box mounted upon the lower section and provided with a pair of divisional partitions forming two outer compartments and a central compartment, the bottom of the latter being concaved or semi-cylindrical to receive the cyl IOO IIC)

ing from the pan to the concavity of said upper section and to a point above the cylinder, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in 15 presence of two witnesses.

JOHN H. HARRIS.

Witnesses:

H.v A. EWING, M. I). JACOBY. 

